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I find the snap leather covers will fill up with dirt and rocks if you use them outside the shop. Inside the shop they are fine.
I find that soft zippered leather will pickup grinder shavings, and when you try to roll them up, you get the shavings in your hand.
If you are going outside the shop, Velcro/hook and loop or zipper.
Inside the shop you can add snaps to the above.
I used 2- 50' Velcro soft leather covers put together to cover : 1/0 cable, 14 pin/lead brain cable, and a gas hose for my MPa wire feeder, as one cover would not reach around that much wire and hose. This set up was every costly.
One more thing about snaps, they come unsnaped or tear the snap out of the leather. Loctite keeps them snaped but also tears them out of the leather.
Good Luck,
Bob

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Got some nice stuff with a couple of Flex Head CK torches I ordered from Jeff over at HTP. Black super flex leather velco closured. Put one on the Dynasty leads as well. The snap leather covers will indeed fill up with rocks, sand, dirt, manure, etc. And the nylon ones melt and will burn as well.

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The covers were Weld Tec TLC-3-22V. I got 4 @ 68ea. They were 3'' wide and 22' long.
I put 2 together to make them 6'' wide X 22', then put the other 2 together to make the cover 6'' X 44'. Then put 1/0 cable, 14 pin brain cable, and gas hose in the cover and Velcroed it closed. The cover is not a tight fit, you could change the 1/0 for 2/0 and still have a lose fit. I finished the last 6', by the welder, with some of the snap cover.
Miller makes a real nice cover # 231-868 that I put on my 8RC. It's a full 50' long.
Tuffer than nails.
I got this stuff from Barnes Welding in Stockton CA.
Good Luck,
Bob

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Just my $.02 worth, but when I was looking for a cover for my TIG rig lead, it turned out that, after playing with a few different types on other rigs, the big thing for me was how well the thing had traction on ME. I tend to wrap the TIG lead up and over around behind my neck/shoulders to take the strain off of my hand/wrist and having a lead that slides/slithers all over the place was really annoying to me. The nylon ones seemed to be more "slithery" than the leather ones, so I went with a leather one with a zipper closure and have been happy with it. I can see where one with snaps could pick up sand/rocks/other junk in the gaps, but the one I have is used pretty much only in the shop, so I have never had it pick up anything and don't expect that it would even if I did use it out where there was stuff that could try to get in it. Another thing is that the leather does stand up to any kind of contact with anything hot, where the nylon ones will melt.

As for the Plasma..I have no experience with that, so can not offer an opinion...I do wish I had one and maybe maybe once I find one I like and can afford, I will!!

Don J
Reno, NV

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